Back in my day, AMC was EVERYWHERE! The first family car was a two door Rambler American, in green--once got hit in the rear when I was a baby, a few months old, much like 40-years-later, my Honda Civic getting rear-ended w/ my daughter at 10-months-old in the back seat (and the driver behind me in a Licnoln MK X SUV taking right off!)
And I would see at least one Ramb. Am. station wagon, in blue...!
The neighbors right across the street had an AMC Pacer, silver w/ black vinyl, (bucket seats, automatic floor shift, radio that was just AM, w/ an FM-converter, added-on) and in an accident, the man driving in somehow pounded his fist right through the dashboard... The car and he, both survived...
I remember how that car sounded needing a new muffler, too; right while I was riding in it--and I rode in it just as frequently as in their 1970 Chrysler Newport 4 door hardtop... That car DID get hot inside--and I think the A/C also broke (it didn't work in the Chrysler, either) and it's a shame the Wankel Rotary Engine proposed for the Pacer got left on the drawing board... Remember the 'removable' hood sitting on the lawn when the Mobile Mechanic (The Tune-Up Man) would service the car--and got down & dirty w/ the neighbors next to 'em's Mercury Marquis; taking the wheels off o' IT, once to do brakes, alignment, etc...!
I crashed into my friend's grandparents' Hornet hatchback, with my bike, shattering the tail light while they were visiting... It was parked in the driveway right over the side walk while I was riding my bike (heard a SMACK!) and some red plastic from the tail light which wrapped around the rear of the car went everywhere, but didn't go inside to 'fess up about it (that is really NOT a place to put your car if you want it SAFE in our--or ANY--neighborhood!)...
And there were other neighbors who had a Hornet station wagon (burnt orange, tan interior) w/ a luggage rack, reclining front seats, and all but at least tinted glass and air conditioning and maybe a radio that wasn't just AM w/ only the single front speaker... We went with one of them when he took their dog to the vet to be put to sleep, just for Tippy to take one last crap in there, on the floor... It was a neat car and when they gave it to their daughter, it had an add-on A/C, just for the thing to die a few years later, & have to be junked...
Oh, Yaeh! A book on AMC, AMERICAN MOTORS: THE LAST INDEPENDENT, it's called! At one library I somehow found my self driving miles to go to--it's an interesting, MUST READ!!!!
-- Dave
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